If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.

In the restaurant business, there's the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator.

In the restaurant business, you learn quickly there's no margin in having enemies.

I love cooking. I'm in the restaurant business.

It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life.